VW CC OEM Interior LED Kit Installation DIY (How to)
(00:05-9:13) How are you doing? Im Paul from Deutsche Auto
Parts. Today well going to be installing LED interior lights on a Volkswagen CC 2013. These
lights are the Volkswagen OEM version that they offer. They are made by Philips and theyre
setup already with resistors inside to make sure that you dont have any bulb monitoring
error lights that come on after installing them like many after-market versions.
(0:29-0:38 before and after pictures) The tools required to install this LED in
this vehicle are, a Volkswagen trim removal tool also sometimes called the bone tool,
a small flat head pocket screwdriver, and a T20 torx screwdriver.
When we start install we want to start by turning off the lights so the heat doesnt
become a problem with the bulbs. When starting the install, you have to start this trimmed
panel right here comes off. You can try to put a bone trim tool in here. Usually this
section is too small to gap for you to get in there so we are going to start with our
pocket screwdriver just get it in there, ever so slightly, work it in. get underneath the
trim then get our bone trim tool in there and pop it out until theres just a couple
clips that snaps it in and then it will swing down. From there, there are two t20 torx screws,
theres one here and also one here. We remove those
and then this entire trim piece pulls down. Youre going to be a little careful because
they are all connected because theyre holding it on so you going to pull it and release
it from the tub that holds on.
So here were looking at the backside of the dome like assembly at the front. Here are
the two bolts that we are replacing. All there is twist out, so turn counter clockwise and
you can remove it and you do that with the other one.
So these are the two bolts we just removed from the dome like assembly. Theyre just pin
out bulb that pop right out. We can remove them and slide this blade style back in there.
And now were all set to reinstall. And now were set to reinstall the LED bolt
and the socket back into the dome like assembly, just keep in mind these are polarized bolts
they have a specific direction they have to be in. if you install them and they dont turn
on, all of these to happen remove it turn 180 degrees and reinstall it and you'll have
the correct direction for them to turn on. Then we go in, just install them and turn
clockwise to install. Crack them in place turn clockwise to install. Now were ready
to put this back up but before we do so we can go ahead and test them.
Okay, we've now reinstall both bulbs in this dome like assembly. We do what to double check
just turn it back on, verify both your lights turn on and none of them need to be turn around.
And now were all set to install in and we can turn it back off.
Okay, so now we're going to reinstall the dome like assembly if we get these connectors
out of our way. Slide this in place and then we're going to snap the rest of it up. Once
we get it snap that will not going to stay there because we do need to reinstall the
torx screws that we already removed. Once we reinstall these torx screws everything
in this dome like assembly should be pre tight and we just flip that up, snap that in place
and we're all done with the center console. Just one more time, to verify this, double
check if the lights do work. Now we're going to be removing the driver
side visor light. The passenger side visor light will remove the same way you just go
to the outer edge pop behind it and kinda pull down. They have a metal spring clip that
to holds it in right here that all you going to do is to push side to release it. You pull
that down. You going to spin that expose the light here. You just snap the light pop it
out like that. Now we get to our new bulb it's the LEDs with the white background on
them, they're white registers they pop in the same way and you want to make sure that
the white portion is facing backwards so that obviously the light comes out in front and
we do want to double check these as well because we will have to reverse them if they don't
work. After they're installed so we can just open the visor real quick, we see it does
turned on. Now we can reinstall it. And you'll do the same thing on the passenger side of
the vehicle.
Alright now we're going to install the rear LEDs we have to remove this trim panel all
you do is pull your fingers behind it and pop it down, pop it down. It's really easy;
it got these mounting tubs on it in each corner. Now we're going to remove the bulbs, they
just pull straight out; they're pin out bulbs like the front ones. They just have pins on
them and they just pull straight out. Now we get our three LEDs and just push them in.
Again, you should test them to verify that they work. It doesn't matter which direction
they're facing. So we all want to verify that and clearly only one of them works. So turn
it off. Turn it 180 degrees push them back in. okay now we've rotate them all, all three
of them are working now so we'll go ahead and reinstall the trim panel. It's pretty
simple to reinstall just line up with the two buttons and push it back on. And we're
all done installing rears.
Now we have our final light. The rear trunk light and this one will remove much like the
visor light, you pop in your trim tool and it will slide out like so, you want to go
ahead and unplug it to get and turn the lights off. Okay, once you remove the light and unplug
it all you do is to pop the bulb out. You can do so by applying some pressure to the
edges and it will pop right out. To install the new one, you just pop it back in. Alright,
now once you got this installed make sure that you have the blue portion of the bulb
facing backwards and the lit portion facing forwards. You will again want to plug it in
just to double check that it does actually indeed light up. Oh it does so therefore you
just slide it back in and pop it in place. Make sure that the rear bulb is going to be
the one with blue back. If you're installing this one first and you try to use the white
bulb in here it will not work.